Is China decoupling on food?

china is starting to talk about food self-sufficiency with the same urgency it applies to chips and ai. if it pursues agricultural decoupling with the same intensity as its industrial policy, the global agricultural economy will be upended. the country is the world's top importer of soybeans, corn, and other staples, so any shift away from foreign suppliers would hit brazil, the us, and australia hard. the question is whether beijing can actually pull it off — domestic farmland is limited, yields are uneven, and the political cost of higher food prices is high.